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Wayfaring With A Wilted Leaf...

8/25/2021

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As I was walking in the garden I could feel the crunch and quiver of the leaves underfoot. Some were scampering in the wind like children at play. My attention was drawn to a single leaf which was glowing under a haze of sunlight. I was awed by its limpid beauty and luminous physicality. Though shriveled and withered, it seemed to hold onto memories it treasured in its collapsed yet vibrant veins.

The dropping of leaves by a plant is called abscission. It is a natural order of progression during the life cycle of most plants. In the process of leaf abscission, plants periodically shed their leaves. Leaf abscission involves a number of biochemical and physical changes. The chlorophyll begins to break down, revealing other colours like oranges and yellows that were always present in the leaf, but which were masked by an abundance of the green pigment. The fallen leaves dry, yet retaining their colours.

Though wilted, the leaf was elegant in its innate beauty. As I was looking at it, I was reminded of Wabi-Sabi, an ancient aesthetic philosophical concept in Zen Buddhism. It is rather difficult to translate the term in English. Wabi roughly means ‘the elegant beauty of humble simplicity’, and Sabi refers to ‘the passing of time and subsequent deterioration’. It urges one to find beauty in every aspect of imperfection while acknowledging its impermanence in nature. It draws attention to three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect. Recognition of these aspects facilitates a more connected way of living not just with nature but also within our inner selves. Awareness of the impermanent nature of phenomena helps us to adopt a more reflective stance to our attachments and enables us to prepare for separation and loss that is inevitable.

It is also reflective of the Buddhist concept of Anicca - that all existence is temporary - which is evocatively articulated in the Mahaparinibbana-sutta (Discourse on the Final Nirvana), which describes Buddha’s last days and his passage into parinibbana.
Aniccaa vata sa"nkhaaraa — uppaada vaya dhammino
Uppajjitvaa nirujjhanti — tesa.m vuupasamo sukho.
Impermanence pervades all things,
They arise and cease, that is their nature:
They come into being and pass away,
Release from them is bliss supreme.

The dry leaf on the ground, with nothing to anchor it, seemed lost in its own world, drifting in the wind. Where was it heading to? Shelley sought the answer in his “Ode to the West Wind”, a poem that was written in the woods as he was observing the multicolored dried leaves buffeted by the wind.
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened Earth

The poem was written under strained emotional circumstances and reflects Shelley’s quest for renewal.

Four months before Shelley began writing it, his son William had died; the year before, he had lost his daughter Clara and he himself was plagued by ill health and creditors. In addition to his personal woes, the public had been largely indifferent to or critical of his writings. The poet asks the wind to scatter his writings across the earth in hope of inspiring new thoughts and works. The play on the words “leaves” is interesting as they are found both in trees as well as in books!

The wind is an important part of nature’s regenerative cycle. The leaf is bound to fall from the tree one day, but doesn’t ‘pass away’, it ‘passes on’. It aligned with forces of nature while it was attached to the tree. Its journey continues even after it falls down onto the earth albeit in a different form. It will soon be digested by various actors on the ground: worms, insects and birds till all that will remain are its skeleton which will be absorbed deeper into the earth. When the leaf returns to its original oneness with the earth, it resumes its own nature. In death it will leave more nutrients in the soil than it ever consumed during its lifetime.

Every leaf teaches us something about life. We are leaves ourselves. At some time we too will be separated from the tree of life and meander in life like this little leaf. We have had our seasons of flourishing and inevitably over a course of time, we are back to our bare bones.
Nothing ever stays exactly the same and nothing is ever repeated in exactly the same way again. This was wonderfully expressed by the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus some 2,500 years ago, who remarked, “Everything flows, nothing stands still…nothing endures but change.”

Our life is like a dance on the Mobius strip. The Mobius strip is a surface with only one side and one boundary. As we trace our finger on what seems to be the outside, we find ourselves suddenly on what seems to be the inside. If we continue, we will find ourselves back on what seemed to be the outside. If life is a Mobius strip, whatever is inside us merges with what is outside and vice versa and both influence each other. In that exchange we co-create what we call reality. In so doing we return to the wholeness, the natural state, in which we were born. Whitman is said it perceptively, “All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses” 

Leaves remind us that to truly live, we must face and embrace impermanence and change as a natural part of life, in our own inner garden.

Impermanence is the beauty and the energy of life.
The wilted leaf
Glows with inner light
Merging with the earth
Harmoniously
From non being
To being…

Look Forward To Your Comments & Reflections On This Post.....Here!!

85 Comments
Dr Vivek jawali link
8/25/2021 06:10:36 am

Ufff…..
This is a different Raghuram .
You left me stunned and pensive .
So well written & so right !!

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 06:16:54 am

Thanks Vivek. Explorations continue of different terrains...birds, wildlfie, heritage structures and most importantly within myself:-)

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bala fischer
8/25/2021 06:28:06 am

Your art of narration with infinite profundity left me wordless for sometime, Sir. You continue to share invaluable wisdom to us, thank YOU 🙏🏾 .
Accepting impermanence leads to ridding of ‘suffering’ that Buddha’s teaching was about.

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Dr Raguram Ramanathan
8/25/2021 06:31:13 am

Thanks Bala. Suffering is a consequence of not recognizing and accepting the impermenance!

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Meena Subramaniam
8/25/2021 06:34:48 am

Lovely very deep thoughts. We are all leaves, we age, mellow out dry and drop. And young leaves sprout and grow from what we nourish. I love your essay. Please do write more in this vein. Pleasure to read and reflect upon.

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 06:38:18 am

Thanks Meena. Not a patch on your visual explorations!

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Lakshmi V Pandit
8/25/2021 06:40:04 am

Words to ponder about, thoughts to imbibe, principles to adapt to our own life....

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:29:45 am

Thanks Lakshmi. And therein lies the beauty of life!

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Nandini Murali
8/25/2021 06:40:11 am

Evocative and deeply poignant! Its amazing how whatever I need to hear always finds me... such is synchronicity! Thank you , Ragu, for reiterating universal truths with simplicity, subtlety , elegance and eloquence! Your piece reminded me of O Henry's masterpiece The Last Leaf!

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:30:37 am

Thanks Nandini. Nature always inspires us to look within!

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Shripathy M Bhat
8/25/2021 06:55:35 am

Meaningful, soothening and rekindling hope. An ode to permanence of life and existence. I have often used this analogy with my clients who are afraid of
of age/death and also in those who want to die. It works wonderfully. Sorry to have dragged in the professional application. The philosophy enriches the meaning of life. Thank you Ragu for the write up.

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:31:56 am

True Shripathy. I works as well within ourselves too!

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Bharathi Mani
8/25/2021 06:59:41 am

I love the way the scientist and the philosopher entwine here. Well written and thought provoking...

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:32:17 am

Thanks Bharathi.

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Krishna murthy
8/25/2021 07:33:16 am

Excellent Raghuram sir…Wonderful narration…Beautiful thoughts…Thanks for sharing 🙏

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:48:13 am

Thanks Krishnamurthy!

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DR KASTHURI.P
8/25/2021 07:59:18 am

Sir you walked through the different out look on life by different great people.The impermanence of all the creatures whether small or big is same and the wind or the breadth is the life line for all the creature which you brought out so beautifully. Thoughts to ponder for all of us

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 08:00:21 am

Thanks Kasthuri!

Narayanan parameswaran
8/25/2021 07:58:12 am

Very well written article exposing the non permanence of life in a poetic way. Punarapi jananam punarapi maranam....

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 08:00:41 am

Thank Parameswaran

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TG
8/25/2021 08:21:43 am

Beautifully written!

Your ability to find meaning even among thing that are considered inanimate, and present your thoughts in a poetic manner is remarkable! The ‘dead’ leaf came to life!

Your writing also implores us to reflect on own transitory lives, with their imperfections. Most of us remain in a state of denial of the impermanent nature of our lives and get caught in trivialities. Reflection helps us appreciate the gift of life and helps us shape it in meaningful way.

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:25:18 pm

Thanks Sriram.

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Brunda Amruthraj
8/25/2021 08:23:14 am

Woh what an imagination Raghu. Just leaves fallen in your walking path has given you so much of food for thought and new ways of looking at regular happenings. Wonderful

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:25:36 pm

Thansk Brunda!

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Vivek Kirpekar
8/25/2021 08:36:27 am

So nicely written.deeply philosophical writing. Life cycle and it's colours! Death and birth are deeply interlinked, to die we must be born and to be reborn we need to die....

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:25:54 pm

Thanks Vivek

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Dr N B Kulkarni link
8/25/2021 08:40:15 am

beautiful writing sir on meaning of life sir
every time I read it it will give different meaning.
Also I remember kannada poet known as ಚುಟುಕು brahma Dinakar Desai. sending the following YouTube link with description (lyrics in kannada) sung by ಪಂಡಿತ್ shripad hegde..

https://youtu.be/H1P8Fff4Pqw

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:26:34 pm

Thanks Narayan and for the wonderful link!

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Alok bajpai
8/25/2021 09:00:31 am

Sir
It is deep and weaves the fabric of existence.
When one exists it has to be in the symmetry and beauty of nature be it leaf or us.
From this biology emerges the impermanence

That itself is another aesthetic act when we watch leaves yet we human don't take it beautifully.

Death too is passing from one to another.

One doesn't step into same water twice Heraclitus said
I think we do not do it even once ....for the second lasts too long and water shifts.
We should flow...

Thanks for this Sir..
Pranaam
Alok

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:27:02 pm

Thanks Alok

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Geetha suri
8/25/2021 09:46:39 am

The only thing permanent in life is the impermanence , it takes a whole lifetime to understand this and to know how powerless we are, yet.......

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:27:19 pm

Thanks Geetha

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Suresh K P
8/25/2021 09:48:44 am

So deeply meaningful Prof Raguram. Very well written and conceptualised. The permanence of change and everything being a journey is deeply symbolic and therapeutic to the human condition.

It implies that in order to be happy, we need accept things as they are and as they come. Reminds me of the serenity prayer.

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:27:49 pm

Absolutely true Suresh!

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Vidya
8/25/2021 10:44:38 am

Lovely!

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:28:03 pm

Thanks Vidya

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Raja
8/25/2021 10:51:49 am

Lovely picture and a write up full of feeling.
I always thought of autumn as the most “drab” season, till I actually experienced one!
The collective colours as well as the veins of the individual fallen leaf were all so beautiful.
How things change when you actually experience them!

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:28:29 pm

So true Raja

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Dr.s.s.kumar
8/25/2021 11:13:14 am

Ragu,only you can compare a dried leaf to a man's life,and so eloquently too! Forget the bards,the sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thoughts!Let each of us etch a life in our own pre ordained way without being bogged down by a jig on Mobius strip or knowing the inevitable!

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:29:45 pm

Thanks Kumar. The jig on the Mobius trip is an inevitable one and can be energizing too!

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Sanghamitra
8/25/2021 11:15:49 am

I have often sat and watched the leaves falling from a tree. They do not just drop. They dance, sway, spiral and they take rocky rides on the wind. How beautiful your piece was , Dr. Raguram on the fallen leaves, with their hues and patterns and textures ...as if the riot of colours were a last hurrah before into dust they returned... and your reflections on anicca were so full of equanimity, no despondence at all..

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 07:30:55 pm

Thanks Snagamithra! Awareness of Anicca is liberating!

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Nandini Mullatti
8/25/2021 03:03:50 pm

Your best one, yet!
Even though the miracle of being on the earth is present in every breath I am not frequently present in every breath. But if I take a breath I see intelligent design everywhere in creation, whether its a weed with its own flowers, the majesty of the mountains or the sky or every pebble on the beach. In nature the cycle of life and decay is ceaseless but we humans are reluctant to acknowledge anicca. Our brains form a construct of reality and once it is.hardwired we exist within our universe, based on an illusory reality, I guess. Thank you for helping us look beyond those boundaries!
I really enjoyed how deftly you have woven together art and poetry, science and the philosophies of the world.... Reminding us that these all just different versions of a Grester Truth. Thanks once again.

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bhavani Rajaram hamann
8/25/2021 08:19:05 pm

Dr. Raghuram, your pictures and words are so deep, full of meaning and the deeper you read, the more beautiful the picture. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing musings! I see a book / books in progress.
“Nothing endures but change”, reminds me of Kintsugi.
Kintsugi the Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold — built on the idea that in embracing flaws and imperfections, you can create an even stronger, more beautiful piece of art. Every break is unique and instead of repairing an item like new, the 400-year-old technique actually highlights the "scars" as a part of the design. Using this as a metaphor for healing ourselves teaches us an important lesson: Sometimes in the process of repairing things that have broken, we actually create something more unique, beautiful and resilient.
- Kintsugi Wellness: The Japanese Art of Nourishing Mind, Body, and Spirit by Candice Kumai.

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 08:28:56 pm

Thanks Bhavani. Kintsugi belongs to the Zen ideals of wabi sabi, which cherishes what is simple, unpretentious and aged – especially if it has a rustic or weathered quality. A story is told of one of the great proponents of wabi sabi, Sen no Rikyu (1522-99). On a journey through southern Japan, he was once invited to a dinner by a host who thought he would be impressed by an elaborate and expensive antique tea jar that he had bought from China. But Rikyu didn’t even seem to notice this item and instead spent his time chatting and admiring a branch swaying in the breeze outside. In despair at this lack of interest, once Rikyu had left, the devastated host smashed the jar to pieces and retired to his room. But the other guests more wisely gathered the fragments and stuck them together through kintsugi. When Rikyu next came to visit, the philosopher turned to the repaired jar and, with a knowing smile, exclaimed: ‘Now it is magnificent’.

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Shaji KS
8/25/2021 08:37:24 pm

Engagingly written...loved reading it .
Yes.....nothing endures but change.
Keep writing.....it is always a pleasure to travel along ....

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 08:56:29 pm

Thanks Shaji...the travel continues!

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Arun
8/25/2021 10:10:21 pm

From a withered fallen leaf to thoughts on impermanence and change your lines flowed like the river in which one cannot step twice. There is poetry in your prose. Beautifully written.

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 10:28:21 pm

Thanks Arun. I keep floating along the river of live,savoring little moments of bliss

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Senthil
8/25/2021 11:05:36 pm

Brilliantly written Sir! You have referred to so many things to talk about impermanence….
I read this one over and over, to enjoy the writing Sir. A simple thanks is not enough to appreciate how I feel at the moment, but I am speechless.🙏

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Dr Raguram
8/25/2021 11:15:47 pm

Thanks Senthil!

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Lalitha
8/26/2021 05:12:51 am

This is too good . Dried leaf with a man’s life only u can write it this way it is a sheer poetry love it soooooo enriching 👌

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Dr Raguram
8/26/2021 06:52:08 am

Thanks Lalitha for your encouraging words

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.Sethuraman
8/26/2021 05:43:36 am

Ragu,
beautiful thought provoking words! For most , a withered leaf is not even worth a relook. You have woven the life's philosophy around it. As our Vedas and Upanishads proclaim, there are only two principles. Consciousness principle(Para Prakrithi) and matter principle(Apara Prakrithi) and though both are present in all beings, animate and inanimate, what is absolute and imperishable is only the consciousness principle Everything else perishes. This is the Advaitha philosophy. You have very nicely, in your own imitable style brought out the philosophy. Requires re-reading a few times to take it all in.

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Dr Raguram
8/26/2021 06:53:29 am

Thanks Sethu. All philosophies align at the level of spiritual quest and journey. It is only religion that divides and complicates our lives!

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Sangeetha Madhu
8/27/2021 01:03:40 am

Dear Sir ,

"In that exchange we co-create what we call reality. "
Thank you for your play with metaphors , elegant visuals honoring mother nature and offering multiple perspectives to co-create reality.
Grateful for your inspiration Sir .

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Dr Raguram
8/28/2021 05:36:57 am

Thanks Sangeetha

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Rajan Iyyalol
8/27/2021 02:29:30 am

Dear Sir
Your enlightened mind is constantly awakened to the elemental and irreducible truths about life and existence. Your reflections on the dialectical dynamics of permenance and impermanence, finity and infinitum and your poetic musings on the cycles of life invoked by the incidental sight of a fallen leaf streams seemlessly through art science,literature and philosophy to draw metaphysical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself. For the minds that search tenaciously for answers to the existential angst, your soliloquies are sooo revelatory and consolatory. Genuinly fresh and confronting...

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Dr Raguram
8/28/2021 05:37:12 am

Thanks Rajan

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Swaminath G
8/27/2021 09:43:44 pm

Three truths, impermanance, incompleteness and imperfect of our life. Integration of these is peace.

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Dr Raguram
8/28/2021 05:37:26 am

Thanks Swami

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Ajit Bhide
8/28/2021 04:46:49 am

Poignant, Ragu..👌👌👌
When leaf and poetry come close Kabir comes to mind:
पत्ता टूटा डाल से, ले गई पवन उड़ाय।
अब के बिछड़े न मिलें, दूर पड़े हैं जाय।
The leaf broke from the branch, drifted away by the wind
Those one separates from now, will ever be difficult to find...

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Dr Raguram
8/28/2021 05:38:33 am

Thanks Ajit. The poem by Kabir is so evocative...as ever! He wonderfully encompasses profound insights in just a few lines

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Ravi Shankar Rao
8/28/2021 05:33:34 am

Ragu you have elegantly and simply woven different threads of thought into this fabric of the truth of ' nothing endures but change'. Starting from the abscission of leaves, through the life cycle of a leaf, to Wabi-Sabi, to the concept of Anicca, through the angst of Shelly you have brought out the awareness of impermanence with telling effect. Facilitating this through fluid prose and insightful poetry
you have taken this narrative to delightful heights. Finally they are different paths to the same truth isn't it?
Enjoyed reading it. Please keep writing!

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Dr Raguram
8/28/2021 05:39:21 am

Thanks Ravi. All the different paths finally merge into universal consciousness

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K. G. Shyamkrishnan
8/28/2021 06:38:14 am

I feel the concept of impermanence is brought out in Baghavad Gita also. Nice chain of thoughts.

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Dr Raguram
8/28/2021 06:46:52 am

Thank You!

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Rekha Pradeep
8/28/2021 09:15:49 pm

Evocative and deeply reflective.Loved the weaving of the beautiful autumnal leaf with the philosophy of Life.Ephemeral Nature that teaches so much,if we just pause and reflect Golden nuggets Thank you!

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Dr Raguram
9/3/2021 07:24:19 am

These nuggets are all around us in our everyday lives!

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Asha
8/29/2021 07:52:41 pm

Doctor when I got married mother in law was so strong in her physical and mental health that she wanted to say to me anything (taunt) she would relate like this ---- A Young leaf will be laughing when A Ripe leaf is falling but it forgets that the young leaf will also become old one day. She meant telling me . So I have understood the meaning so well doctor all things like we learnt in school Living and Nonliving things go through this stage of Primary,Higher Primary,Secondary to Higher Secondary and then Graduate, then Work all Moddle age Then comes the toughest part neither we are fully old or young but we the responsibility of our young and seniors. By the then we would have frailed without noticing ourselves. You are the person who knows to put the words to life doctor. I just wrote my experience.

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Dr Raguram
9/3/2021 07:27:29 am

The metaphor of the leaf plays out in all our lives Asha!

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Koshy Varghese
8/31/2021 09:06:48 am

Doc, that was a fascinating read. I never realized that the falling of a leaf had a term. My late mother always cautioned me by saying, translated from Malayalam, the young leaf laughs when the old / ripe leaf falls down, without realizing it will meet the same fate.
That's life. An endless cycle. Thanks for sharing this

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Dr Raguram
9/3/2021 07:28:33 am

In that endless cycle, we find our meaning and purpose in life Koshy

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Bhaskar Jayaraman
9/1/2021 05:32:19 am

Wow so well written and I so deep in knowledge - I came to know many new concepts ! The comparison of life to Möbius strip (of which I learnt here first time) is very creative and perceptive !

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Dr Raguram
9/3/2021 07:29:10 am

Thanks Bhaskar. The travels in the Mobius trip are so self enhancing!

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Gauri Rokkam link
9/6/2021 04:20:11 am

Just read this and felt it so soothing. Probably, if one reads your expressions and learn life's lessons, we dont need your professional services😊. It was so meaningful.

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Dr Raguram
9/10/2021 05:52:48 am

Not just mine! Provided we become aware of our own vulnerabilites and evolve methods of working through them!

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Dr Abhay Matkar
9/7/2021 07:23:04 am

A leaf….can teach us so much… which Sir you have brought out so meaningfully.We are living in this world as PERMANENT occupants without the need to move on….deeply touched by your models of explanation. I am reminded of my stay in Srinagar wherein the Chinar leaves gave a message in each of its four seasons… the last of the fragile leaves drifting along the slow waves of the lake.Time to ponder & reflect on our journey which remains fragile & IMPERMANENT. Regards.

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Dr Raguram
9/10/2021 05:53:36 am

Thanks Abhay. The metaphor of the Chinar leaves across seasons is a beautiful one!

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C. Anbudorai
9/7/2021 08:08:45 pm

Sir, u r a gnarly tree, thoughts drop from u in abscission & alight on digital / papyrus leaves & leave to get swept simultaneously into a forest if minds .
Your thought leaves ferry so much across time

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Dr Raguram
9/10/2021 05:54:29 am

An ageing tree too Anbu:-)

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Sobhana H
9/11/2021 12:09:56 am

What a beautiful and profound piece of work!!! I was reminded of the Peom Murray's Phool by Mahadevi Varma I studied in school. I remember feeling awed and fascinated by analogy the poet draws between the withered flowers and life. I felt the emotions when read this. Thought providing..

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Manju Reddy
9/19/2021 12:44:30 pm

Sir you have stitched together "the wisdom" not only from different regions of the world but from different time periods. Awesome one.

Reminded me of Kannada novelist who wrote a novel "Hannale chigaridhaga" that had great humor.

Leaf is a powerful and infinite metaphor. Loved this one!

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உதிரும் இலைகள் தொடர்பான எண்ணங்கள் கவித்துவமாக உள்ளன. மரத்திலிருந்து விடைபெற்று மண்ணை வந்து சேரும் இலையின் பயணம் ஆழமான ஒரு கவித்துவக் குறியீடு. நிறமாற்றம், உருமாற்றம், இடமாற்றம் என ஒவ்வொரு இலையும் வாழ்வின் ஒரு வட்டத்தை நிறைவேற்றிக்கொள்கிறது. ஜென் தொடங்கி ஷெல்லி வரையில் அழகான வரிகளைத் தொட்டு ஒரு சொற்கோலத்தையே நீங்கள் தீட்டியிருக்கிறீர்கள். படிக்கப்படிக்க மகிழ்ச்சியாக உள்ளது. நல்ல சித்தரிப்பு. துயரத்தை யார் மீதும் சுமத்தாத, மண்ணில் யாருக்கும் கிட்டாத விடுதலையை ஒவ்வொரு இலையும் பெற்றிருக்கிறது. அது இலை பெற்ற பேறு.

உதிர்ந்த இலையை முன்னிட்டு போன வாரம் விஜயானந்த லட்சுமி என்னும் கவிஞர் எழுதிய ஒரு கவிதையைப் படித்ததும் என் குறிப்பேட்டில் எழுதி வைத்துக்கொண்டேன். அழகான காட்சி அது.

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Malathi Swaminathan
3/21/2023 12:09:42 am

Been reading
So much here, Sir!!!
How deep each paragraph is!!

A spark for my article from this, grief as இலையுதிர் காலம் recovery as வசந்தம். Tears as rain, wets the body soul to recover, support system as warmth of summer (,pervading )??

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